#hierarchy

What I think we can do is help individuals understand the church teaching, but also maybe help the church understand the viewpoint of lay men and women about what they want in regard to priests, or how do they want the hierarchy to deal with them? ↗

— William P. Leahy

#also #church #deal #help #hierarchy

The hierarchy of relations, from the molecular structure of carbon to the equilibrium of the species and ecological whole, will perhaps be the leading idea of the future. ↗

— Joseph Needham

#ecological #equilibrium #future #hierarchy #idea

All sciences are now under the obligation to prepare the ground for the future task of the philosopher, which is to solve the problem of value, to determine the true hierarchy of values. ↗

— Friedrich Nietzsche

#future #ground #hierarchy #now #obligation

Legislators have a formal set of responsibilities to work together, but there's no hierarchy. ↗

— Barney Frank

#hierarchy #legislators #responsibilities #set #together

Change is happening and old structures are falling in the form of a "Death of a Thousand Cuts." In other words one grand act is not occuring but a multitude of small expressions on the part of individuals, both slowly and swiftly taking the place of heirarchy and history. ↗

— William Gibson

#end-of-hierarchy #expression #change

Unfortunately, in a hierarchical structure, power relationships tend to determine the content; there is always the danger that a "rank-based" logic will prevail. Managers, intent on advancement, tend to supply the information they know their superiors want to hear, rather than the information they ought to hear. Large organizations tend, therefore, to become systematically stupid. ↗

— John Médaille

#politics #relationship

It won't do away with hierarchy totally, but the principal leader will be the person who most exemplifies the kind of organization and behavior required who is best able to create the conditions such organizations require. ↗

— Dee Hock

#away #behavior #best #conditions #create

We should always be disposed to believe that that which appears white is really black, if the hierarchy of the Church so decides. ↗

— Saint Ignatius

#appears #believe #black #church #decides

There's a hierarchy in prison, and I was right at the top. ↗

— Tommy Chong

#i #prison #right #top

BC is not going to replace the hierarchy, and BC is not going to lead some major reform in the Catholic Church - that's got to come out of the whole Catholic community. ↗

— William P. Leahy

#catholic church #church #come #community #going